Headed out at 5:30 to the hog pen and got a swirl first cast, but no takers. Mike got a keeper in the next few mins and then nothing doing for an hour and a half. We finally saw some birds working and jumped on it. Again Mike gets a keeper for the well. Worked the area and got multable stripers from 14"-24" Some small blues mixed in for the morning. Great weather with water temps now down to 65. Won't be long now till peak season.
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yeap sounds faimiliar conditions, been a while since ive been on the forum
me and my dad were fishing in black rock and bridgeport harbors last week, had alot of live bunker, im guessing 10 lber's were chasing the bunker hooked into a few when i left them out on the snagger
bridgeport harbor had everything going for us we just got there a little to late and had some misfortune, stripers swirling, only hitting chunks, bunkers heads, hooked intoa few and lost a couple on the hookset [laugh]
then the blue moved in and we moved out, did some blackfishing outside of black rock harbor and near the pennfield light house, lots of keeper porgys soem black fish and the notororius bait stealer...... the cunner ! haha
going back out tonight and probably all day tommorow
will post some updates when i get back
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My neighbor just got back and says the blues are in New Haven Harbor strong now. Looks like the cool nights are bringing them back. Beginning of the best time of year.[
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Yea talk about the blues being back in force best day out ont the water for me and my dad on the water this year must have caught 35+ Bluefish over 10 lbs over a 8 hour span, bunker was being thrashed in black rock harbor in fairfield/bridgeport back by the thras to energy plant
bunker was so thick....
also chunked a little bit out on stratford shoals last night caught a bunch of sand shark and blues saw some Albies when there was still light
fished for bluefish for so long me and my dad decided to mix it up and bust out the light tack for tautog and scup ended up catching at least 100 porgy and many spines stunk in the palm [laugh] even caught some searobin, cunners and 2 blackfish
now im off to my house in NH for some primetime smb and lmb fishing [
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